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History of Central America
History of the region between Mexico and South America including Houduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Panama
751 Questions
What was the reaction of the north when the south would not give up the slaves?
You cannot really give a simple answer to that. Of course the northeners were outraged though. The northeners often thought that slavery was a horrible thing to do. It took away the africans rights as people. It made the northeners angry that people were being hurt, abused, and pretty much tortured every day, and that the slaves were pretty much given table scaps of food to live on. Such behavior was not acceptable to them and this controversy eventually led to the civil war.
How many natives were in Antigua when the English first arrived?
It was the Spanish who first arrived in 1493 in the Island group that includes Antigua, at that time occupied by small numbers of Arawaks.
These natives were replaced at some time around 1500 by Island Caribs, who seem to have taken over by force after a long period of warfare with the Arawaks. The English colonists arrived in 1632, but they seem to have been unable to distinguish between one native group and another (despite the language differences). No count of the native population was ever made, so it is not possible to say how many natives were in Antigua at that time.
The Caribs of Antigua were wiped out in 1640.
What body of water in Mexico is named after hernan Cortes?
The Sea of Cortes, also known as Gulf of California. It separates the Baja California peninsula from the rest of Mexico.
Who was the original owner of Panama?
Panama was part of the Republic of Colombia, until the USA, helped the Panamanians win their independence so The USA, could build the Canal, since the Colombian government did not allow this.
What did general James Wolfe's parents do?
General James Wolfe's father, Colonel Edward Wolfe, served as an officer in the British Army, while his mother, Henrietta Thompson Wolfe, came from a family with military connections. Wolfe was born into a military family, which influenced his own career in the British Army. His upbringing in this environment helped shape his leadership qualities and strategic mindset, contributing to his later achievements as a general.
How and why did black slavery begin in America?
(2) huge numbers of native workers died of diseases imported from Europe, to which they had no resistance
(3) imported European workers working for pay quickly accumulated enought money to become landowners and hire their own workers
(4) central Africa was in almost constant constant tribal warfare, and it was traditional for the losers to be enslaved by the winners. Beginning in the 1500's some alert Portugese traders realized that they could buy slaves from the successful coastal tribes and transport them to the Americas as workers. This allowed Portugal to establish thriving sugar plantations in Brazil.
(5) the Atlantic Slave Trade grew and slaves were move from inland Africa to the coast to feed the trade. Most of the early slave trade was conducted by Portugal and Spain, but by the 1600's Britain was the leading operator of slave ships, carrying slaves to the West Indies and later a few to British North America.
(6) there were so many crops that were prized in Europe that could only be grown in the tropical and subtropical Americas, especially sugar and cotton.
(7) The Spanish crown would not allow natives in Mexico, Central, and South America to be enslaved at first.
(8) Being more naturally resistant to diseases such as malaria, Africans could be worked harder and were more productive than native people.
When you say "in America", you do need to realize that out of the more than 10 million African slaves who lived to reach the Americas, only about 600,000 were in what is now the USA. The vast majority of African slaves involved in the holocaust of the Atlantic Slave Trade went to Brazil and the islands of the West Indies.
I guess you mean Montezuma II (1466-1520), penultimate Aztec emperor before the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Most of his conquests included the present-day states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas, on the southern Pacific coast. Note at the time, most of Mexico had city-states with their own government and culture; just like Greece during its Classical Period.
By 1517 he had conquered 48 city-states and over 450 towns and villages. The only dominions that were not conquered by the time contact with Europeans was established, included the Tlaxcalans and the Mixtecs.
